Cameron Crowe had her in mind when he wrote the movie Singles (1992)
Dated singer/actor
Dwight Yoakam [1999-2001]
Lived with
Lee Drysdale [1986-1989]
Was offered
the role of "Ally McBeal" (1997), but turned it down to focus on movies. In fact, she didn't even read the
script out of fear that she would like it too much.
Lived with
Eric Stoltz [1990-1998]
Cousin of
Troy Garity
Granddaughter
of Henry Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda.
Daughter of
Peter Fonda.
Sister of
Justin Fonda
Chosen
by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#85). [1995]
Cousin of
Vanessa Vadim.
Daughter of
Susan Brewer.
Flipped and
crashed her 1998 Jaguar sports car, along the same infamous Malibu stretch of highway where both Nick Nolte and Robert Downey
Jr. got into trouble with the law. She survived, but with minor back injuries. [February
2003]
One week after
her unexplained car crash, her publicist announces Fonda's engagement to composer and former "Oingo-Boingo" member, Danny Elfman.
Shares
a birthday with actress Mimi Rogers, actress Rosamund Pike, Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed, actor James Cromwell and actor
Alan Cumming.
Is a huge
fan of Dario Argento and was supposed to be in Argento's Sindrome di
Stendhal, La (1996) (aka The Stendhal Syndrome).
Son
Oliver Henry Milton Elfman was born mid January 2005.
NBC
has ordered a TV pilot based on Candace Bushnell's book "Lipstick Jungle". In this book Bushnell (the writer behind Sex and
the City) portrays three successful New York Women, who are not looking for Mr. Big but to become their own Mr. Big. The part
of the designer was written with Bridget Fonda in mind.
Named
after Bridget Hayward, a step-aunt who committed suicide.
Aunt of Bodhi Elfman
Step-mother
of Mali Elfman
BFA
in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1986)
Her godfather
is Larry Hagman.
Sister-in-law
of Richard Elfman.
Daughter-in-law
of Blossom Elfman.
Personal Quotes
"I can
be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents
were nasty for their day."
"I'm
afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as
you can get without being totally neurotic."
"Nudity
is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is
watching."